Industrial Design Engineer, GES NA Ops Engineering

Are you an innovative leader that wants to lead the cross-functional design and deployment of innovative solutions into our world-class existing fulfillment centers and logistics systems? Do you want to take ownership of solving the industry's most complex problems? Does the challenge of designing and implementing ground breaking solutions for automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems including robotics and high-speed manufacturing appeal to you? If you're looking to be challenged in a fast paced and often ambiguous environment, and you have strong technical problem solving and project management skills, then this job is for you!

Global Engineering Services (GES) Operations Engineering (Ops Eng) is searching for an innovative and solutions-oriented engineering project leader to lead initiative of developing and delivering next generation, world-class sortation and transportation systems. This position will have an impact on both design and process design engineering for GES.

If the notion of leading engineering projects amongst the world’s brightest talent to full potential excites you; if the idea of using ground breaking technologies to develop sortation and logistics systems in the multi-national juggernaut that is Amazon has your attention, then keep reading.

We’re looking to add a high-impact engineer to our team. In this role, you will collaborate with internal and external teams to design high-quality, cost-effective solutions for our sortation and distribution systems. Your projects may include green-fields, brown-fields, and retrofits, including highly automated fulfillment centers, cross-dock facilities, and transportation centers. Your projects will be a variety of template-based and designed-from-scratch along with ownership of Process Designs end to end complimenting each Design.

You will work with a team of highly skilled and highly engaged engineers in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. Our team works on hundreds of projects each year. You will be challenged; you will learn; you will work on high impact, high visibility projects; you will grow.

This role requires 50% regional travel and availability to work from one of the locations listed when not traveling. Candidates should either live near or be willing to relocate within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Relocation assistance may be provided.

Key job responsibilities

- Coordinate efforts to develop optimal solutions and processes for the sortation and transportation network through process design, site layout, equipment specification, and intellectual property considerations

- Work with internal customers across multiple organizations to define highly ambiguous problem statements and develop technical specifications for equipment evaluation and deployment

- Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions in very short periods of time

- Deeply understand the business and technical requirements of product integration from mechanical, electrical, and controls functions

- Simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors

- Evaluate solutions effectively and make decisions that balance business value and technology risk

- Help your customers and the engineering teams make appropriate trade-offs by considering the larger picture (e.g., business goals, throughput expectations, quality requirements, efficiency, maintainability, operability)

- Identify standards and drive consistent application of engineering changes across North America

- Build strong working relationships with Fulfillment Center (FC) leadership and their operations teams across multiple sites including Industrial Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, and Process Engineering stakeholders

- Data mine and transform raw thoughts into clear technical documentation

- Effective communication skills, ability to execute the vision, detailed roadmap, and specific technical solutions

- Travel Requirements: 50%

A day in the life

Amazon Benefits:

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience

- Experience in Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related work

- Experience in management of engineering design projects

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree in Engineering (any domain) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field

- Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making

- Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing

- Experience with design-in-safety

- Experience with process design based on Lean Principles

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TN, Nashville - 94,300.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually